Description: The Sacred Project of American Sociology, by Christian Smith - Hardcover - NEW***. This item is new, and comes from a smoke-free home. ***This book is brand new, you'll notice that it's never been read, but the dust cover has scuff marks from stacking and the inside of the dust cover has one bent corner. Please see pictures. Description: Counter to popular perceptions, contemporary American sociology is and promotes a profoundly sacred project at heart. Sociology today is in fact animated by sacred impulses, driven by sacred commitments, and serves a sacred project. Sociology appears on the surface to be a secular, scientific enterprise--its founding fathers were mostly atheists. Its basic operating premises are secular and naturalistic. Sociologists today are disproportionately not religious, compared to all Americans, and often irreligious. The Sacred Project of American Sociology shows, counter-intuitively, that the secular enterprise that everyday sociology appears to be pursuing is actually not what is really going on at sociology's deepest level. Christian Smith conducts a self-reflexive, tables-turning, cultural and institutional sociology of the profession of American sociology itself, showing that this allegedly secular discipline ironically expresses Emile Durkheim's inescapable sacred, exemplifies its own versions of Marxist false consciousness, and generates a spirited reaction against Max Weber's melancholically observed disenchantment of the world. American sociology does not escape the analytical net that it casts over the rest of the ordinary world. Sociology itself is a part of that very human, very social, often very sacred and spiritual world. And sociology's ironic mis-recognition of its own sacred project leads to a variety of arguably self-destructive and distorting tendencies. This book re-asserts a vision for what sociology is most important for, in contrast with its current commitments, and calls sociologists back to a more honest, fair, and healthy vision of its purpose. Please see my pictures and message me if you have any questions. Check out my other items! Be sure to add me to your favorites list! Thank you for looking :)
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Subject Area: Religion, Social Science
Publication Name: Sacred Project of American Sociology
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Length: 5.7 in
Subject: Sociology / General, History, Sociology of Religion
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 1 in
Author: Christian Smith
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education
Personalized: No
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Item Width: 8.3 in
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
